debug at terminal? like nodejs debug?

[TangMonk]

I offen use $ node debug app.js to debug nodejs application and into REPL :

< debugger listening on port 5858
connecting... ok
break in app.js:1
  1 global.root = __dirname;
  2
  3 var config = require('./config/config.js');
debug>
(^C again to quit)
debug>

the CoffeeScript official document shows:

So i type: $ coffee --nodejs --debug index.coffee

but nothing happend

[caseyWebb]

Install and run node-inspector, then run $ coffee --nodejs --debug index.coffee and point your browser to the url node-inspector gives, generally localhost:8080/debug?port=5858

As far as debugging directly in the terminal, I don't think that is supported.

[TangMonk]

@caseyWebb , thanks for your reply.
I installed node-inspector:

Node Inspector v0.8.1

But when I run coffee --nodejs --debug index.coffee, and terminal show:

$ coffee --nodejs --debug index.coffee
debugger listening on port 5858
$ 

But nothing happed

[caseyWebb]

@TangMonk That allows the debugger which runs in the browser to connect to the app. In another terminal tab, run node-inspector and go to localhost:8080/debug?port=5858 in your browser